Border guard units from the northern Vietnamese province of Dien Bien and the Chinese province of Yunnan carried out a joint patrol on July 7 to promote coordination in border management and protection, maintaining security and order in border areas.
A ceremony was held at the Tong Khao martyr’s cementary in the northwestern mountainous province of Dien Bien on June 23 to rebury the remains of eight Vietnamese volunteer soldiers who laid down their lives in Laos during the wartime.
VOV.VN - The Department of Preventive Medicine under the Health Ministry has sent a dispatch requesting that the mountainous border province of Dien Bien’s Department of Health take epidemic prevention and control steps after the discovery of three outbreaks of human anthrax in Tua Chua district.
Leaders of the northern Dien Bien province of Vietnam and Phongsaly province of Laos announced the opening of Nam Dich - Huoi Hia border crossing at an inauguration ceremony in Nam Dich hamlet of Dien Bien's Nam Po district on May 15.
VOV.VN - Cung Rung, also known as forest god worshipping, is one of the main traditional rituals carried out by the Khang ethnic minority people in the northwestern province of Dien Bien, with this action displaying their life in attachment with Mother Nature.
VOV.VN - Dien Bien province is a revolutionary land which, in 1954, was the site of the historic and world-shaking Dien Bien Phu victory over the French colonialists.
President of the National Association of Former Prisoners of Indochina (ANAPI) Gen. Philippe de Maleissye has showed the clumps of soil and rocks he had brought back from his recent trip to Vietnam, which were taken from Hill A1, the site of some of the fiercest fights in the Dien Bien Phu campaign, while talking with Vietnam News Agency correspondents in Paris.
VOV.VN - On May 7, 1954, the Vietnamese army and people won the historic Dien Bien Phu victory which resulted in the signing of the Geneva Agreement ending the war and restoring peace in Indochina, paving the way for the reunification of Vietnam in 1975. 69 years after the Dien Bien Phu victory, the peoples of Vietnam and France are now fostering friendship and cooperation.
69 years ago in the heart of the Muong Thanh valley, the flag “Determined to fight, Determined to win" of the Vietnam People's Army flew on the roof of the General De Castries’ bunker, marking the victory of the Dien Bien Phu campaign.
An art programme entitled “The epic of Dien Bien” was held in Dien Bien Phu city, the northwestern province of Dien Bien, to celebrate the 69th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu historical victory (May 7,1954-2023).